(1997) Three Italian String Quartets Luciano Berio Robert De Visée and Simone

Robert De Visée and Simone Molinaro

almost as if he were ticking off one genre after another

and we are thrilled to present it — a live recording [without rehearsal] that exemplifies the spontaneity and freshness of jazz improvisation

often by questionable arguments

(1997) Three Italian String Quartets Luciano Berio Robert De Visée and SimoneThe three works on this recording are characteristic of the rebirth of the string quartet in Italy after an extended hiatus following the quartets by Boccherini and Cherubini. The quartets by Respighi, Rota and Malipiero represent the continuation of Verdis individual forays into this genre and in a sense the development of the string quartet in Italy in the first half of this century. The Nuovo Quartetto Italiano (formerly Giovane Quartetto Italiano)